The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 88

The old man and his slaves pushed off in a boat directly the ship touched land, and walked quickly towards the entrance to the underground chamber; but when they were near enough to see that the earth had been disturbed, they paused and changed colour.

Who acts: old man, ship, ships · What happens: push off, touch, walk, be, see, disturb · To what, where: boat, land, earth, colour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, ship, ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slaves	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 slaves	nmod:poss
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 man	conj
7	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 pushed	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 boat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushed	obl
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	15 touched	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	nsubj
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pushed	advcl
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 walked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walked	cc
19	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pushed	conj
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	19 walked	advmod
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	23 entrance	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 entrance	det
23	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 chamber	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chamber	det
26	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chamber	amod
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 enough	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 enough	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 enough	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 enough	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 enough	cop
33	near	near	ADV	_	34 enough	advmod
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 pushed	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 enough	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 disturbed	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 earth	det
39	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 disturbed	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 disturbed	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 disturbed	aux:pass
42	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 paused	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 disturbed	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 paused	nsubj
45	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 see	ccomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 changed	cc
47	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 paused	conj
48	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 changed	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push off	past	the old man and man's slaves		a boat		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in boat=Trajectory
2	touch	past	the ship	land		directly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme
3	walk	past	the old man and man's slaves not said here			towards the entrance; to the underground chamber result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to chamber=Result
4	is	past	ships = ship			enough, near property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	ships = ship not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	disturb	past · perfect · passive		the earth			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	pause	past	ships = ship				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
8	change	past	ships = ship not said here	colour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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